The site of a Watch and Ward beacon has been identified as the hill rising to a point at NGR SC 43297938. The Hill for the Day Watch for Lonan parish was at Sir William's Hill as mentioned in a document (Castle Rushen Papers) dated 1627. Cubbon stated that this hill was on Clay Head (shown at SC 428806 on the 1957 1:10560 scale Ordnance Survey map). There were two Ports for the Night Watch, one at Laxey (SC 4483) and the other at 'Gob Stoell', just south of Garwick, (Gob ny Stowell at SC 438813 on the 1957 1:10560 scale Ordnance Survey map). The majority of the Watch and Ward posts may well have been maintained on the same sites since the Middle Ages.